Sweet Degeneration
1997, Chinese. Directed by Lin Cheng-sheng.
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Chinese
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- Released
- 1 January 1997
- Original title
- 放浪
- Country
- Taiwan
- Written by
- Lin Cheng-sheng
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Sweet Degeneration runs 118 minutes (1h 58m).
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Sweet Degeneration isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1997. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Sweet Degeneration?
Sweet Degeneration (1997) was directed by Lin Cheng-sheng and stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Jing Tseng.